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What a freakin' DAY.
Da da da daaaaaa~
You got a Small Key! This key will open a locked door. You can use it only in this dungeon.
^Venus in her workshirt O SNAP.
Today was my first eight-hour shift for Swatch. It wasn't terrible, but I'm still a bit ragged from it, and very glad I don't have school in the morning. I was set to close with Michelle and Lonnie. No big deal.
Right away when I clocked in, Michelle called me back into the office and told me to have a seat. Then she asked me how I was doing.
"I'm kinda nervous, actually," I said. "You just told me to sit down. That's either really good or really bad." I chuckled, but she didn't seem very amused, and asked me how I was again. "Tired." And then I complained about my sociology professor before she got down to the real conversation.
"Dan and I think that you're capable of closing and opening by yourself." Well, no shit, I thought. I've only been doing it for three months. The only things I haven't done are activated the security system and locked the door! So she asked me if I could do it, and naturally, I said yes. Ash also got a key, yesterday, and did I see the word "MENTOR" next to his name on the schedule? WTF is that supposed to mean? I hope he's not going to be the Swatch mentor because he's only been working for, what, two weeks? I'm sorry, but there's no way I can allow that to happen. Michelle said we didn't have a mentor yet, but I'm still highly suspicious, and I don't like how Ash keeps going over my head with stuff, and stealing my customers.
ANYWAY.
Michelle actually had to leave early, and so I was left alone with Lonnie. Not a terribly big deal; I know how to do all the paperwork, and I'm certain I can close up by myself.
But then I forgot about all the new procedures that have been implemented recently, making closing by myself -- as Lonnie's an associate and can't do paperwork -- a little tougher. Still, nothing I couldn't handle, until I noticed things didn't exist, or were terribly misplaced, and then I forgot to do the cycle count.
About eight-forty-five, I decided to get a jump on paperwork, like I always do, because it's over in ten minutes. However, we've got to use an adding machine now to make sure the register is even. WTF, I can count it in my head. And it doesn't follow order of operations (i.e., it thought 300+2x50 was 15100, not 400. And I'll bet you thought you'd never use PEMDAS outside of math class!), so I can't be bothered to deal with such a useless piece of equipment. When I did the spotcheck, I was also eight cents short somehow. Not a big deal at all, but HOW was I eight cents short? That register is almost always perfectly even.
So I went to the back to do paperwork. The daily schedule (what the rest of our paperwork gets paper-clipped to) wasn't done, so I did it for the whole week. That took a bit of time. Then I looked in the drawer and ... what the hell? A bajillion audit envelopes stared back at me. Where were my deposit tickets? Where were my deposit bags? Where was my audit checklist? And so I had to call Michelle, TWICE, and also Anthony, and it turns out that more deposit bags were never ordered. Isn't that fantastic?
So now I have to do a half-assed job on the paperwork, which is all cluttered because nothing was where it should be. All these new procedures are such BULLSHIT.
And then I noticed that it was past nine-thirty. Why was the door still open and why were there TWO customers in the store? -_-# And with trying to do all the paperwork correctly but efficiently, and taking out the garbage, I forgot to do the NEW! cycle count.
Someone in some store was stealing one of the popular styles of watches. (I don't know why; it's not even a nice watch.) So now, every day, open and close, every store has to cycle count and make sure no one stole any of them. I totally forgot to do it. D: So I'm running around like a headless chicken and Lonnie's just sort of standing there because he can't do any of it.
At least actually closing the store went smoothly. I entered my passcode and the alarm went on, and I locked the door and everything was cool. ^_^
BUT OH YEAH IT'S SEPTEMBER 11. So I was wondering why the moon was really bright and really LARGE through the clouds in the sky (it was rainy and cloudy here today). The reflection of light was much too large to have been produced by the moon, which was in the west WAY too early for this time of ni-- oh yeah. It's the stupid light pillars in Manhattan. CAN WE PLEASE GET OVER THIS NOW kthnx.[/bitter]
I should probably start my MEMW assignment tomorrow. XD I'm not sure if it's such a good idea to work since I'm a little stressed....
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Your story reminds me of when I first got the key at my other jobs. God, I used to freak out. I was always sure I had fucked up something. I didn't even want to be a keyholder at my other job (and there was no pay increase either!)
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(Anonymous) 2007-09-13 04:25 am (UTC)(link)love it.
- evie